This year, it is this space between tradition and creation that we will explore, in order to redeploy and walk the paths that open for the “performer” – actor, dancer, singer – between these two hard cores of human experience.

This worksession will be, as usual, impulsed and guided by several young professionals who have a first-hand relation to a specific practice. It will consist in a comprehensive physical and vocal training, as well as the learning of forms (songs and physical scores). It is open to actors, dancers and singers, professional or not, who are willing to immerse themselves in an intensive process of practice.

– The individual action as a point of convergence, workshop on anonymous collective memory and its embodiment in theatrical forms in the first person, let by Jean-François Favreau et Marie-Geneviève L’Her, Cie. L’homme ivre (Paris/Limousin, France).

The two weeks are complementary. They are meant to give the group the possibility of a real maturation. Between the work sessions (8 hours per day on average), some discussions, film-watchings and recording-listenings will take place, as well as outside activities in the forest or countryside. On the last day, August 15th, in the nearest village, will take place a presentation of the work, followed by a festive evening, led by the two musicians from La Nòvia.

The work will take place in an old barn, typical of the craft of the “masons from Creuse”, as well as outside. It will be held in French and English, according to the possibilities of the group.

The participants, who will be 12 at the most, will arrive at La Vauzelle on August 3rd (or at the nearest train station: La Souterraine, where a shuttle will take them to La Vauzelle). The Site for Theatre Practices will accommodate them in guest houses and organize meals. Departure is planned on August 16th.

> Language: English, French

> Dates: August 3rd-16th (arrival and departure should be planned on the 3rd and 16th)

> Hours: 9-13, 15-19, and evening meetings

> Prices (12 days/90 hours):

Early registration (application sent before June 10th) or subscribers to the newsletter of the Grotowski Institute of Wroclaw: